Top 100 Quotes About Time Travel
#1. Time travel is one of Assad's major achievements, the problem is he only perfected it one way: backward.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#2. How fast does time travel, how short are the trails, when friends and good companions put wind in one's sails!
Heimdall Thunderhammer
#3. Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.
Domhnall Gleeson
#4. The more I time-travel the more I learn I am always just where I need to be.
Amy Poehler
#5. Has using that time-travel drug scrambled your wits, you don't know you've got only one tiny life and that lies ahead of you, not sideways or back? Are you waiting for last year to come by again or something?
Philip K. Dick
#6. Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.
Michio Kaku
#7. One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.
Douglas Adams
#8. In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
Yuji Horii
#9. I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.
Katherine Jenkins
#10. Time travel. No one said it was going to be easy.
Greg Thomas
#11. People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
Octavia E. Butler
#12. Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.
Tom Waits
#13. This was the danger, the seduction of time travel, she realized - it was the opportunity, the freedom of a thousand possibilities of where to live and how to start over. It was the beauty open to you in your life if you only stopped for a moment to look.
Alexandra Bracken
#14. Perhaps all the science-fiction stories he read about time travel when he was a teenager had it right: you can't change the past, no matter how you try.
Stephen King
#15. Damn you, time travel. Why can't you be possible?
Jessica Love
#16. I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad
Julie Klausner
#17. And that's basically the end of this story. I know it sounds unbelievable and all. And I'm not saying I can explain all the time travel parts or the magical tattoo parts. You may not even believe me. That's okay, though. I know it happened and that's all that counts.
Dinah Katt
#18. Was I altering the 'space-time continuum' or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I'd accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease that killed them?
J.R. Rain
#19. Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.
Michio Kaku
#20. Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.
Don Hertzfeldt
#21. Goldberg claims time travel is easy. "It is simply a matter of using the Fifth Dimensional Travel exercise," he says, that he presents on his website.
Stephen Young
#22. Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you'll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.
Tom Burns
#23. I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell
#24. The only thing I have room for in this head of mine right now is the firm belief that fate absolutely exists. Fate ... soul mates ... time travel ... you name it. It all exists. Because that's what her kiss feels like. Existence.
Colleen Hoover
#25. You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.
Jen Campbell
#26. Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read one of the ubiquitous time-travel Austen adaptations and somebody picks up a single-volume first edition, you can hit your nerd buzzer and say "wrong!").
Amy Smith
#27. If time travel were possible we'd be inundated with tourist from the future.
Stephen Hawking
#28. I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?
William Shatner
#29. Million pieces of glass..more finer..upto the verge of disappearness..den a new reality ..life so called time travel through wormhole
Sunil Sharma
#30. I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.
Amy Poehler
#31. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind.
Charles Yu
#32. Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.
Zach Braff
#33. Billy was unconscious for two days after that, and he dreamed millions of things, some of them true. The true things were time-travel.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#34. I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .
Dean Israelite
#35. With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances vary, but the formula is the same. They're having problems reading, having problems grasping some of the things that are being taught to them.
Malik Yusef
#36. Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.
David Gerrold
#37. Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.
Charles Yu
#38. With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.
Moon Bloodgood
#39. He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game
only with higher stakes and greater consequences.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#40. It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.
Brit Marling
#41. You figure you'll cool it on the time travel for a while. Don't want to see the Dave corpses start to pile up. Especially if one of them winds up being you.
Andrew Hussie
#42. Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb.
Alex Scarrow
#43. When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
Terence McKenna
#44. Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.
Lisa Randall
#45. China's official State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television issued a warning and denunciation of time travel in 2011, concerned that such stories interfere with history - "casually
James Gleick
#46. Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
Douglas Coupland
#47. Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn)
You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel, and wave your hand to make freaky stuff happen? (Susan)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#48. Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
Stephen Hawking
#49. When sitting in an armchair isn't enough ... I write. What I mean is that when it no longer suffices to sit and dream about travelling to other times, other places, I write about them instead. A most economical and safe form of time travel.
Anna Belfrage
#50. One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
M. Ward
#51. Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage.
CJ Fosdick
#52. Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.
Rian Johnson
#53. Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.
David Wilcock
#54. There's a sort of jet lag when you time-travel to your own past.
Bill Watterson
#55. I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!
Scott Bakula
#56. It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego.
Terry Pratchett
#57. You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But ... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?
Neil Gaiman
#58. His remit will be to monitor the use of reality-modification weapons by both sides in the conflict and to assure the civilized worlds that the New Republic does not engage in gratuitous use of time travel as a weapon of mass destruction.
Charles Stross
#59. Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.
Michio Kaku
#60. First of all, time travel per se does not exist. 'Travel' implies that you choose both your destination and when you come back. It's more a 'time shot,' a 'time through.' But it's definitely not time travel.
Francis Barel
#61. If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
Stephen Hawking
#62. Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.
James Altucher
#63. Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
Warren Spector
#64. I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.
Rian Johnson
#65. Time travel occurs in humans collective subconscious.
Toba Beta
#66. The most romantic creation to have come out of regret is time-travel
Preeti Bhonsle
#67. I can't comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.
Dexter Palmer
#68. I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
Malala Yousafzai
#69. You made a mistake, and sadly time travel has not yet been invented, so why are you still thinking about it?
Dave Guerrero
#70. I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.
Margaret Atwood
#71. Annie believed taste and aromas had the power to transport people from the present to other places. Sometimes this was a journey to a different mood, but it was also a form of time travel.
Hannah Mary Rothschild
#72. That's the thing about time travel - you're always moving forward, even when you go back.
James A. Owen
#73. Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.
Nicole Lapin
#74. Time travel..will never be impossible forever.
Toba Beta
#75. Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.
Steven Moffat
#76. Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated!
Kelley Armstrong
#77. A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
David Cone
#78. I take out my book, glad to have a few minutes to study the diagram on time travel and string theory. But before I can build a time machine out of strings, I need to figure out what the heck they are talking about.
Wendy Mass
#79. Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.
Douglas Adams
#80. Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.
Stephen King
#81. Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
James Altucher
#82. I mean, the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script, I think, in terms of handling time travel the best. It depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.
Rian Johnson
#83. I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.
David Deutsch
#84. You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
Tamsin Greig
#85. Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing is human character, which is the main thing of most writers.
Philip Jose Farmer
#87. Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Stephen Hawking
#88. One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.
James Jeans
#89. Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.
Ranvir Shorey
#90. I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.
Joyce Rachelle
#92. The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
Brian Greene
#93. The first thing we should do in order to grasp the realm of time travel is by redefining
general perception and common concepts regarding time within our daily language structure.
Toba Beta
#94. I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.
Jen Lancaster
#95. Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.
Michael R. French
#96. People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?
Tad Williams
#97. Time travel is a fantasy...isn't it? Not anymore!
Tammy Tate
#98. Time travel? Saving the world? Had I fallen into a straight-to-DVD release?
Myra McEntire
#99. I looked up at the wall. My bachelor's degree had been in History. Films like Back to the Future and Quantum Leap had been some of my favorite programs. Could time travel really be possible? This seemed too unreal.
Anna M. Aquino
#100. I can't go back to being who I used to be!'
Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.
'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
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